Workspaces Release Notes: 3.68
Summary
This release includes some more VM updates to make users more aware of their usage and to make them quicker to start.
Administrators will also notice a change to Workspace edit cards- these now have a tab view.
Other new features and improvements are detailed below.
Upcoming items
We will shortly be releasing our new Airlock panel as well as fully supporting database schemas in workspaces.
We are continuing our work on our 2025 Roadmap including an AI assistant.
Released features
| Feature | Type | Jira key | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remove Start button from VM cards | Enhancement | XAP-27487 | We have removed the 'Start’ button from VM cards as it was redundant. Users can now start and access the VM in one click using either the Desktop or Terminal button. |
| Update default workspace homepage | Enhancement | XAP-27472 | We have released a new, more informative default homepage. You will see this in your workspace if your organisation or project have no set their own custom homepage. |
| Redesign workspace edit page to split out some configuration into tabs | Enhancement | XAP-27413 | For DRE administrators: When editing the workspace, the view is now split into tabs for a more structured and tidier user experience. |
| Airlock option is missing from ellipses menu on Database tables page | BugFix | XAP-27374 | We noticed that the option to Airlock a data table was missing from the data table list; this has now been fixed. The airlock option is always displayed when it should be. |
| Renaming an SVG no longer renders the image | BugFix | XAP-27052 | We have resolved an issue where renaming .svg files using the workspace UI lost their content-type setting and they couldn’t be displayed. |
| Backend: workspace VM storage | Enhancement | XAP-26913 | We now show some additional information on VM cards including how much storage and disk space is left for use. |
| UI: present VM disk utilisation on VM card | Enhancement | XAP-26834 | When virtual machines details are shown, the disk capacity and current usage are now displayed too. |
| Unable to create an upload token for subdirectories | BugFix | XAP-27757 | Bugfix - when creating an upload token the directory selection modal will now work |
| During db table creation, receive an error with a file where commas are used within a string | BugFix | XAP-27728 | In some cases, users could not create data tables when their raw data included commas. This has been rectified. |
| Cannot create Git repo in R Studio | BugFix | AT-2303 | Fixed bug in RStudio configuration which prevented users from creating Git repositories. |
| Shiny apps don't start in RStudio | BugFix | AT-2273 | We have a made a small change to enable shiny apps to run within R Studio on workspaces. |
| Update Collabora to Latest Release | Enhancement | AT-1951 | We have upgraded the version of Collabora which is deployed in our workspaces. There should be no noticeable impact. |